Apparently his name was Marcus Nonius Macrinus, and the ruins of his villa have been discovered along the banks of the Tiber.
The Russell Crowe charater "Maximus Decimus Meridius" appears to have been a composite character based on Marcus, a wrestler named Narcissus, and the slave-revolt leader Spartacus.
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